Warriors and Horses and Chariots, Oh My!
Bleary eyed from too little sleep on the night train, we arrived at the Xi’an Railway Station before 6:00am on Monday morning. We dodged a particularly annoying tout and managed […]
Bleary eyed from too little sleep on the night train, we arrived at the Xi’an Railway Station before 6:00am on Monday morning. We dodged a particularly annoying tout and managed […]
The four of us (Hannah, Neil and we Turtles) arrived at the Pingyao Railway Station on Friday afternoon, after having slept on the train (the boys reported a good night’s […]
Part II Wednesday was a busy day. We started the day by getting some food at Costa Coffee (chocolate croissant – $2) across from the Lama Temple and made our […]
Part I It was Friday afternoon and we had about 30 minutes until Shabbat was to begin when we arrived at Roberta & Ted’s house in the northeast of Beijing. […]
Our China Southern Airlines flight ($254 each) landed in Xiamen on a bright Sunday afternoon. We cleared immigration and collected our bags, and then checked back in for our connecting […]
From the very beginning of this trip, Jordan was waiting to visit picturesque beaches. She had read somewhere that Boracay was the 5th prettiest beach in the world and couldn’t […]
We landed in Cebu on Wednesday evening and as one does in the Philippines, headed to the departures area to catch a taxi ($4.50) which took us to Palazzo Pension […]
Very early on Friday morning we arrived at NAIA Manila International Airport. After getting hardly any sleep at all on our 3.5 hour flight from Singapore (seriously, Cebu Pacific, why […]
Our Tuesday morning flight from Phuket to Singapore was short, and the American woman sitting next to us on the flight helped to prepare us for the stark cultural shift […]
After a very long journey, including two ferries and one van ride, we arrived in Phuket Town at 6:00pm on Thursday. The SeaTran van operators offered us a transfer to […]